All Stories from October 13, 2013 (Change date)
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Scarecrows quite a draw in St. CharlesOct 13, 2013 11:49 am - If Saturday’s gloomy skies kept anyone away from the 28th annual St. Charles Scarecrow Festival, Sunday’s idyllic autumn weather brought them downtown. Handmade scarecr...
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Building collapses in ColombiaOct 13, 2013 11:44 am - MEDELLIN, Colombia — Searchers hunted through the wreckage of a collapsed high-rise in Medellin, Colombia, on Sunday, trying to locate 11 people missing. No deaths had y...
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Stampede near Indian temple kills 89 peopleOct 13, 2013 11:44 am - NEW DELHI — A stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India left at least 89 people dead Sunday, police said. The chaos broke ou...
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7 Red Cross workers kidnapped in northern SyriaOct 13, 2013 11:40 am - BEIRUT — Gunmen abducted six Red Cross workers and a Syrian Red Crescent volunteer after stopping their convoy early Sunday in northwestern Syria, a spokesman said, in t...
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McHenry courthouse a bad place for fistfightOct 13, 2013 11:31 am - A 20-year-old Harvard man apparently picked a bad place to start a fight — the McHenry County courthouse. Authorities charged Daniel Stott with felony aggravated battery...
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Indian officials say few were killed in massive cycloneOct 13, 2013 10:27 am - BEHRAMPUR, India — Mass evacuations spared India the widespread deaths many had feared from a powerful cyclone that roared ashore over the weekend, officials said Sunday...
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Attacks across Iraq kill at least 36Oct 13, 2013 10:27 am - BAGHDAD — A string of bombings in mostly Shiite-majority cities across Iraq on Sunday killed at least 36 people and wounded dozens, officials said, a grim reminder of th...
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Al-Qaida surges back in Iraq, reviving old fearsOct 13, 2013 10:26 am - BAGHDAD — First came the fireball, then the screams of the victims. The suicide bombing just outside a Baghdad graveyard knocked Nasser Waleed Ali over and peppered his ...
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Egypt: Detained American found dead in cellOct 13, 2013 10:23 am - CAIRO — A U.S. citizen detained in Egypt for violating curfew in August was found dead Sunday in his jail cell, the second foreigner to die in detention in recent weeks,...
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Much rests on Bears’ offenseOct 13, 2013 10:17 am - Both coach Marc Trestman and quarterback Jay Cutler admit that the Bears’ offense still is a work in progress, and there’s plenty of evidence to back them up. Most recen...